Fractions updose next Monday!

🥜It's about to get real, yall!  Brandon is currently scheduled for his first updose of peanut fractions next Monday, 4/1.  (And no, that's not an April Fools joke!)  He's currently on his highest liquid dose of 'peanut flour + water + grape flavor' (see my previous blog post) and our next step is fractions of an actual peanut.

🥜On this first dose of fractions, our doctor will start him out on these Israeli peanut snacks (thank you Amazon!) because they're easiest to measure at these small fractions of a real peanut.  His first dose will amount to about 1/4 of one of these 'peanut puffs.'  I had a bag earlier this week, just so I knew what he'd be eating, and they have the consistency of puffy Cheetos, but with the taste of a peanut.  

🥜It’s important to note we will be on *fractions* of peanuts for quite awhile still once he takes this step. His first dose will be the equivalent of about 1/6 of an actual peanut. We will gradually build from there until we get to anywhere between 12-24 peanuts/day as we start to determine his maintenance dose. That will still take several more months for him. Still #mindboggling 

💙 But we’re alllll kinds of emotions over here! Excited, hopeful, trepidatious, cautious....we’ve got it all going on! 😭😃😬 If you don’t mind throwing up an extra prayer for us next Monday 🙏🏼 (late afternoon), we would so appreciate it. I’ll be sure to let y’all know how he does. 

Until then,

MKB (Momma Knows Best)  🐢💚

Bamba - Puffed peanut snacks